Visit Places - Drive, Fly or Swim
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Playing around on Google is fun. Playing with Google is double fun. People visit places, they drive, they fly, take the train. But what would you say if you're asked to swim? Amrita visited London recently (she's gotta blog with a detailed write up and 'more' snaps to prove that though) ; I thought hey - it would be a good idea to visit London - spend your vacation there. It would be a dream come true fomme.
So I open up the much reliable Gmaps and here's what I find ....
Pay attention to - Item #9 and you'd see what I mean. And then #10 asks me to take a "slight right". Pay toll and reach my destination "London" after traveling 3,722 mi in about 29 days 6 hours. I wonder, amongst other things, how they'd have calculated my swimming speed :P.
Labels: Boston, Fly, Google, London, Map, Swim, Travel, UK, US
Posted by Rajesh @ 7:27 PM; PERMALINK,
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Orbitz - not that great service
Saturday, December 09, 2006
A friend of mine had an opportunity this time to yell at them (Orbitz). Just for the heck of saying it lets just say that they suck big time. Couple of months back he got an opportunity to go through their web-site and book tickets online. This time an International flt ticket.
And boy was he in trouble ... British Airways cancelled their flight and the customer rep at Orbitz reissued the tickets - but this time in a higher class (which he wasn't made aware of) . 2 days before departure he calls up to confirm his tickets only to find out that he has to pay ~ $4000 [the difference] before he could check in.
Went crazy, called up Orbitz who didn't know what to do. Went to the airport to talk to BA reps at the counter and ended up spending 5 hours. The whole Saturday afternoon spent at the airport with calls going back and forth, yelling and shouting at the reps (poor chaps), cell phone batteries giving up and what not.
I was just sitting there like Viktor Navorski (The Terminal), watching hundreds and hundreds of passengers running around. People carrying 3,4,5 and 6 suitcases, huge fedex boxes and what not. There was a Canadian Ice hockey team (I believe) with their bulky kit blocking the walkway. Then there was this lady who startes at the display screen for a while and hurries to the KLM check in counter. After like couple of minutes, I saw her running again - this time from the KLM counter to the BA counter ... getting confused as to which airline to board ? ;)
Anyways it was getting on my nerves (and my friends') but finally they had it settled. Alfter all the confusion and waste of like 1000 man hours, they gave him the best offer available at that time - 1 weeks wait. Yup - the trip was delayed a week cutting short his vacation. Thanks to Orbitz; bottomline - they suck big time.
Labels: Airlines, Boston, British Airways, Flight, KLM, Orbitz, Travel, Vacation
Posted by Rajesh @ 8:06 PM; PERMALINK,
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